When the cloth dried and stiffened, he saw what adjustments had to be made.

They designed refined quillwork on clothing and ceremonial shields, helped prepare for battle, prepared skins and cloth to make clothing, cared for the children and taught them tribal ways, skinned and tanned the leathers used for clothing and other purposes, prepared fresh and dried foods, and performed ceremonies to help hunters in their journeys.

The main product locally was felt, produced by soaking the cloth in water and beating it with large wooden paddles until the wool formed a thick mat which could be flattened, dried and cut into lengths.

During the 18th and 19th century, silk traders from China traveling to the Middle East packed their silk cloth with dried patchouli leaves to prevent moths from laying their eggs on the cloth.

One can also make a poultice or compress using whole herb ( or the appropriate part of the plant ) usually crushed or dried and re-hydrated with a small amount of water and then applied directly in a bandage, cloth or just as is.

By the sixteenth century the famous French surgeon Ambroise Paré ; ( 1517 – 1590 ), who championed more humane treatments in medicine and promoted the use of artificial limbs made casts of wax, cardboard, cloth, and parchment that hardened as they dried.

Surume ( dried squid ) and konbu are wiped with wet cloth and then cut into thin stripes with scissors.

Trade continued to grow: by the mid-16th century imports from Europe included, wine, olive oil, iron, figs and other dried fruits and dyes ; exports included cloth ( both cotton and wool ), lead and hides.

Adult male and female fish are anaesthetised ; their eggs and sperm are " stripped " after the fish are cleaned and cloth dried.

The lengths of wet cloth were stretched on the tenter () using tenterhooks ( hooked nails driven through the wood ) all around the perimeter of the frame to which the cloth's edges ( selvedges ) were fixed, so that as it dried the cloth would retain its shape and size.

When poured on a surface, it dried into a portable hole with the consistency of a circle of cloth.

By bunching fresh yuba or rehydrated yuba, then tying it tightly in cloth and stewing it, the dried yuba sticks will retain their original shape.

The legend says that an old woman washed her hair in urine and dried it with a cloth.

These gifts included T-shirts, towels, multipurpose “ pha khao ma ” cloth, and stationary for schoolteachers, school uniforms, and stationery for schoolchildren, and pha khao ma, sarongs, needles and thread, medicine, tinned food and dried foodstuff for villagers, while small children would receive various toys suitable for their age.

Guksi was traditionally only rinsed with clean water and dried with a cloth after use.

After the desired color is achieved and the fabric has dried, the paste is scraped off, revealing the white patterns on the blue cloth.

) By its greater corporeal presence and its greater extraneousness, the affixed paper or cloth serves for a seeming moment to push everything else into a more vivid idea of depth than the simulated printing or simulated textures had ever done.

While Axbridge grew in importance as a centre for cloth manufacturing in the Tudor period and gained a charter from King John, Cheddar remained a more dispersed mining and dairy-farming village.

Cheddar cheese was sometimes ( and still can be found ) packaged in black wax, but was more commonly packaged in larded cloth, which was impermeable to contaminants, but still allowed the cheese to " breathe ", although this practice is now limited to artisan cheese makers.

At the end of his space walk, the suit stiffening caused a more serious problem: Leonov had to re-enter the capsule through the inflatable cloth airlock, in diameter and long.

The Nihonshoki is more expansive, though the section is mythical, and almost wholly cut from the cloth of Chinese legends.

Many weavers also found themselves suddenly unemployed since they could no longer compete with machines which only required relatively limited ( and unskilled ) labour to produce more cloth than a single weaver.

For instance, suppose Portugal was a more efficient producer of wine than England, yet in England cloth could be produced more efficiently than it could in Portugal.

A third option is called " loading the needle " and involves doing four or more stitches before pulling the needle through the cloth.

The circumstances of the 2 artists ' collaboration are unclear ; since Masolino was considerably older, it seems likely that he brought Masaccio under his wing, but the division of hands in the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is so marked-Masolino is believed to have painted the figure of St. Anne and the angels that hold the cloth of honor behind her, while Masaccio painted the more important Virgin and Child on their throne-that it is hard to see the older artist as the controlling figure in this commission.

When the raw material — cloth — was worth more than labor, it made sense to expend labor in saving it.

The relative amounts of kemp to wool vary from breed to breed, and make some fleeces more desirable for spinning, felting, or carding into batts for quilts or other insulating products, including the famous tweed cloth of Scotland.

He kept the square frame, but replaced the canopy with a bulging sail-like piece of cloth which he came to realize decelerates the fall more effectively.

Materials used include aida cloth, evenweave, and linen fabrics, in cotton, linen, and man-made materials combined in more and more ways ; and fibers from cotton floss to silk, rayon, viscose, and metallic.

Because lens design only allowed rather small aperture lenses, the image on the ground glass screen was faint and most photographers had a dark cloth to cover their heads to allow focussing and composition to be carried out more easily.

Several pages from the Codex Mendoza list tributary towns along with the goods they supplied, which included not only luxuries such as feathers, adorned suits, and greenstone beads, but more practical goods such as cloth, firewood, and food.

In contrast, cloth diapers, while initially more expensive than disposables, cost as low as $ 300 for a basic set of cloth diapers, although costs can rise with more expensive options.

Moire ( pronounced " mwar ") and moiré ( pronounced " mwar-ay ") are now used somewhat interchangeably in English, though moire is more often used for the cloth and moiré for the pattern.

The face, the shoulders and the bust are still idealized, while the hands and the fold of cloth over the legs are more realistic.

Again aided by CAD and special modelling software the sailmakers use cloths of different weight, placing heavier cloth panels where there is more stress and lighter cloth where there is less to make savings in weight.

this mixture was then spread on a cloth and wrapped around the affected part.

For erysipelas a mixture of one dram borax and one ounce glycerine was applied to the afflicted part on linen cloth.

Belfast developed faster than Dublin during this period on a mixture of international trade, factory-based linen cloth production and shipbuilding.

A Molotov cocktail is a breakable glass bottle containing a flammable substance such as gasoline or a napalm-like mixture, with some motor oil added, and usually a source of ignition such as a burning cloth wick held in place by the bottle's stopper.

John recorded that Joseph was assisted in the burial process by Nicodemus, who brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes and included these spices in the burial cloth as per Jewish customs.

* Tacos sudados (" sweaty tacos ") are made by filling soft tortillas with a spicy meat mixture, then placing them in a basket covered with cloth.

In 1930, the magazine Popular Mechanics described how to make adhesive tape at home using plain cloth tape soaked in a heated liquid mixture of rosin and rubber from inner tubes.

Two quarts of cold water are rapidly added to the hot brew, and after the mixture has cooled it is strained through a cloth.

The paste is then mixed with water by hand and the mixture is poured through a straining cloth to remove all excess plant matter.

Now a mixture of housing and a busy thoroughfare through town, this part of Galashiels has a market or mercat cross and is surrounded by remnants of the town's history, with a former cloth hall, the Gala Aisle, and Tea Street in the neighbouring area.

Where the paste mixture covers and permeates the cloth, dye applied later will not penetrate.

Pirogov's method involved soaking coarse cloth in a plaster of Paris mixture immediately before application to the limbs, which were protected either by stockings or cotton pads.

Interiors were a tan mixture pattern cloth.

The standard interior fabric was tan mixture cloth.

Light weight surf skis are made of composite layers of epoxy or polyester resin-bonded cloth: fibreglass, kevlar, carbon fibre or a mixture.